Fair point, I meant for the quotes to function as scare quotes, and working class (or maybe even upper-middle or middle class in scare quotes) would have been m

Fair point, I meant for the quotes to function as scare quotes, and working class (or maybe even upper-middle or middle class in scare quotes) would have been more appropriate. More generally, what I was going for was that many tech workers would think this doesn't apply to them. In particular, for me, "working class" conjures a historical picture of union factory jobs (steel, auto) and I have a hard time viscerally mapping that to tech. If you don't have this same implicit bias then sorry for the confusion and congrats for not having this bias.